If you love us and want to further motivate the project, donations are a good way to do that. If you can't / don't want to, another good way is to let us know that you appreciate our work by making a post saying thanks.Why you should use it

EssentialsX provides several performance enhancements and fixes that are currently not available in Essentials and Spigot-Essentials, most importantly fixed mob spawner support for 1.8+ servers. See the wiki for details.

EssentialsX is almost a completely drop-in replacement for Essentials. However, it has different requirements:

EssentialsX requires Vault to enable chat prefix/suffixes and group support if you have a supported permissions plugin.

If you have an unsupported permissions plugin but still wish to use wildcards, enable use-bukkit-permissions in the configuration. Otherwise, the plugin will fall back to config-based permissions.

EssentialsX requires Java 8 or above.

Metrics collection

This plugin uses bStats - you can opt out using the global bStats config.
Old MCStats graph for historical purposes:

Thank you drtshock and the others who help you for maintaining EssentialsX. There are no words to reflect the level of gratitude the community owes you. Tens of thousands of servers are running smoothly thanks to you.

People really take this plugin for granted; over 47,000 downloads in this version yet just 5 reviews. drtshock has done a great job at maintaining EssentialsX. It's still working spectacularly, so I'd like to say thank you. Please never stop upkeeping EssentialsX.